Jessica Moretti, owner of the Constellation in Crans-Montana with her husband, Jacques, will not be placed under house arrest . The Sion court has ruled that she must submit her identity documents and report to the police daily.
In addition to being banned from leaving Switzerland, the entrepreneur will also have to pay a deposit, which will be determined later.
The decision was made, the Court clarified, at the request of the Valais Public Prosecutor's Office, "due to the risk of flight, the only risk cited by the prosecution." In his reasons, the judge added that "since the Public Prosecutor's Office had not requested pre-trial detention, such a restrictive measure could not be ordered by the Court."
"Every defendant is presumed innocent until a final conviction," it is specified, emphasizing that "the cardinal principle of Swiss criminal procedure is that the defendant remains at liberty until trial ; pre-trial detention can only be ordered at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office and in exceptional cases, as a last resort, to ensure the proper conduct of the investigation."
Meanwhile, the investigation into the New Year's Eve massacre is making further progress. The autopsy on Riccardo Minghetti, the 16-year-old among the Italian victims of the fire, has determined that he died of asphyxiation. The results will need to be confirmed by a thorough toxicology test.
(Unioneonline)